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Showing posts with label consumer activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer activism. Show all posts

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

New Media News

Get hip, hippies.  Ya wanna beat back the raging Tide Of Assholes?  Use your available resources.



Thursday, May 22, 2014

Yay, Free Enterprise

The whole banana by Col Bateman guest-posting on Charlie Pierce's blog:
Last week I mentioned the harassment that the women of Mothers Demand Action Against Gun Violence received in the past few months since the group was initiated on Facebook. The hatred is real, violent, and should not be ignored. What I did not appreciate at the time is the reason why the rabid gun advocates were so angry with these women. Now I know.
"Open Carry Texas" (which I think of as "Wimps With Mommy Issues"), conducted an open carry, en masse, at a Chipotle Restaurant — then the moms shared the word. They posted pictures of these morons carrying rifles in a family restaurant. Then they asked that the chain bar weapons on their private property. As Founder Shannon Watts put it: "The Chipotle petition received more than 10,000 signatures within just a few hours." The corporation realized where their business interests lie and that guns are wrong in their establishments across the entire nation.
In a statement Chipotle released Monday, the company said, "the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers."
These women are doing what nobody else had managed to do before now. They are actually affecting change. Not through legislation, but through the free choice they have to patronize, or to NOT patronize, private companies that allow guns to be carried in their stores, restaurants, malls, and more.
Watts has become a target, and a heroine. She is the sort of woman that I want my daughters to grow up to be, facing a threat to our nation and taking it head on. Is she afraid? Of course. Anyone would be in her situation. Gun advocates (most who identify themselves as such are also NRA members) have threatened her life, they have threatened to rape her, they have threatened her family, and they have demonstrated their earnestness by showing up at her house. But she has not stopped, she has not quit, and she has not backed down.
This is moral courage, and indeed physical courage, of the highest order.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Guerilla Consumer Activism

Taking a page from Tyler Durden's playbook in Fight Club, John Oliver has NOT tasked us with NOT printing out some labels, and then NOT going to the grocery store to NOT paste them onto certain products.

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Pushing back against Corporate Power sometimes has interesting results:

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Consumer Activism

I posted a few days ago about what a sludge bucket Lil Chuckie Todd is, and today over at Democratic Underground, they said the petition they started had 100,000 signatures, and yesterday I saw Todd on Alex Wagner and I turned it off immediately and today I sent a nastygram to MSNBC and here's the list of people at MSNBC you can annoy with your lefty radical complaints:

Executives in charge:
Deborah Turness, President, NBC News
Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC
Vivian Schiller, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, NBC News
Bill Wolff, Vice President, Primetime Programming, MSNBC
Mike Rubin, Vice President, Long Form Programming, MSNBC
Richard Wolffe, Vice President and Executive Editor, MSNBC.com

Media Relations:
For reporters looking for comment on MSNBC.com, please contact:
Danielle Lynn, Media Relations Manager
212.664.7403
Email: Danielle.Lynn@nbcuni.com

For reporters looking for comment on MSNBC TV, please call:
MSNBC Media Relations  212.664.6605

For viewers wishing to leave comments about a MSNBC program, please email: msnbctvinfo@nbcuni.com